tv tuner

[apjwillard]

I have a PixelView Tv Tuner 5446P+ Card. Is there any way i can get the tv-tap software for linux or any other way i can watch tv on my desktop?

[mdwatts]

I did a G4L search for 'PixelView Tv Tuner 5446P+', 'tuner 5446P+' and just '5446P+' and did not find anything.

So I just searched for bttv and found this (hopefully) helpful link.

http://www.linux.org/docs/ldp/howto/mini/BTTV-5.html

Ensure you have PnP OS disabled in the bios and then check to see if you have any tv tuner/bttv related modules loaded using

lsmod (list loaded modules)

[bwkaz]

First, find out if that TV card has a Brooktree chipset, or something else. The majority of them seem to have Brooktree chipsets. lspci should tell you this (or cat /proc/pci).

If you do, then look at mdwatts' link for BTTV stuff.

If you don't, then post what chipset it uses, and maybe there are drivers for it. But maybe not...

[dkeav]

an easy way to check is to fire up knoppix, it seems to have quite a bit of support for tv tuner cards, and will configure it and you will have xawtv right there to test it